A surprise guest was in attendance at Friday's Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers Weigh-ins: DREAM & WAMMA Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki. The Japanese fighter said he's attending tonight's CBS-televised event and hopes to soon fight for the promotion (presumably sans the pants). With the help of a translator, Aoki told Friday's crowd that he looked forward to the event and hoped he could soon make his promotional debut for Strikeforce. SF CEO Scott Coker said he hopes that could happen by early 2010.
_______________________________________ “Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us.” – Evan Tanner 1971-2008
"Be better than you think you can be. Don't quit two minutes before the miracle. Believe."-Charles "Mask" Lewis
And just where the hell is our resident Aoki nuthugger? How come it's someone else posting this instead of him? Oh well...he'll show up eventually to tell us just how he'll fare when he presumably must fight without the pants. And possibly against SF Interim Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez (Another ouch, Josh Thomson).
_______________________________________ “Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us.” – Evan Tanner 1971-2008
"Be better than you think you can be. Don't quit two minutes before the miracle. Believe."-Charles "Mask" Lewis
Could someone remind me who is in Strikeforce's LW division? Ohwell, I really hope they build it up. For some reason, I'm likeing MMA right now. We don't have our circus acts with EliteXC and Affliction. With Bellator, DREAM, And SF, we have a really cool stable talented underpool.
You've probably only heard of 2 regulars: Melendez and Josh Thomson.
_______________________________________ “Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us.” – Evan Tanner 1971-2008
"Be better than you think you can be. Don't quit two minutes before the miracle. Believe."-Charles "Mask" Lewis
no big surprise with the dream alliance but i think strikeforce is making the right moves will never been the ufc but they won't fold like elite xc or affliction either
i do think ufc needs to start siging some heavy hitters prospects and letting hendo walk to them is not the start
You know, UFC letting Hendo go to Stikeforce 'could' be UFC setting them up. Let them 'think' they are stealing UFC fighters and then run out of cash because they blew the budget on 4-5 big names??
IDK man, the last Dream and SF events have been awesome! I can't imagine them not making money with these events, cards and total entertainment value. I know the fighters are asking for big $ but the org has to raking it in right now.....I'd lve for the SF/Dream union to become the next big thing....add on a killer new name like Pride and I am sold!!! LOL!!!
